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Great day today. Took my Dad as a belated Father’s Day present to listen to a couple of goats.
Had a great discussion with Carter and McCaw here in Sydney. My dad even won a signed jersey which some rich punter paid $7500 for lol.Having this moment with my aging Dad priceless, winning a signed jersey and talking about our own family all black history with two goats just sublime.
Had a lot of down days recently but this was absolutely memorable
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Interesting thoughts on NZ rugby from both which will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear as you can imagine both playing a largely flat bat to most subjects.
Also this is just my own opinion and not fact but would not be surprised if Ritchie ends up with CTE later in life, he has always been largely an introvert but just some struggles in expressing clearly his opinion worry’s me for one of our greatest. I maybe way off the ball but just a thought I got from watching him and talking to him today. Seriously hope I’m wrong
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@bayimports Downvote for the CTE. Fingers crossed for the guy.
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear
And we're waiting ...
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Interesting thoughts on NZ rugby from both which will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear as you can imagine both playing a largely flat bat to most subjects.
Also this is just my own opinion and not fact but would not be surprised if Ritchie ends up with CTE later in life, he has always been largely an introvert but just some struggles in expressing clearly his opinion worry’s me for one of our greatest. I maybe way off the ball but just a thought I got from watching him and talking to him today. Seriously hope I’m wrong
I've had some kind of had covidy/fluey thing and far out is hard to think of words when I'm talking at the moment. I have to really focus to get the words out. Such a mental strain. Must be some kind of brain fog.
Being an introvert doesn't help with being able to express yourself so I can see how that would make it difficult for Richie as he gets older.
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear
And we're waiting ...
Sorry mate, maybe will just answer some questions here. They were asked the question about who was the better coach Schimdt or Razor which was answered diplomatically by Ritchie. Dan added a bit of humour by adding any coach that can increase the value of the Wallabies but still fail to win the bledisloe is legendary. Both argued Razor was a young coach, arguably thrown into this international role too soon, but both said deserved a chance. IMHO sounds like needs to go offshore first.
Ritchie changed his leadership style from do as I do to delegation to the senior leadership group. In terms of a parallel Scooter looks blunted as a leader, Ritchie felt the same until he delegated to his leadership group. Once he did so, he felt like he could play his natural game again and not worry about other areas. Like a lot of leaders learning from mistakes 2007 helped shape him.
Dan and Ritchie were an always “take the three” early pair and often rarely was Dan overruled if he called it. Ritchie reserved right to go for corner if Dan appeared not so certain. He has not agreed with a lot of recent captaincy decisions but thinks he is about 50% accurate.
Both are seriously humble but both agree the difference between good and great is mindset. Both highlighting Jordan’s documentary. Arguably the greatest thing that hold a lot of kiwis back is belief.
More take aways to come but loved talking and listening them
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@brodean said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Interesting thoughts on NZ rugby from both which will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear as you can imagine both playing a largely flat bat to most subjects.
Also this is just my own opinion and not fact but would not be surprised if Ritchie ends up with CTE later in life, he has always been largely an introvert but just some struggles in expressing clearly his opinion worry’s me for one of our greatest. I maybe way off the ball but just a thought I got from watching him and talking to him today. Seriously hope I’m wrong
I've had some kind of had covidy/fluey thing and far out is hard to think of words when I'm talking at the moment. I have to really focus to get the words out. Such a mental strain. Must be some kind of brain fog.
Being an introvert doesn't help with being able to express yourself so I can see how that would make it difficult for Richie as he gets older.
Seriously hope I’m wrong , having Dan there really helped him express opinions. Dan very funny actually
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
will happily discuss in a rugby thread if anyone wants to hear
And we're waiting ...
Sorry mate, maybe will just answer some questions here. They were asked the question about who was the better coach Schimdt or Razor which was answered diplomatically by Ritchie. Dan added a bit of humour by adding any coach that can increase the value of the Wallabies but still fail to win the bledisloe is legendary. Both argued Razor was a young coach, arguably thrown into this international role too soon, but both said deserved a chance. IMHO sounds like needs to go offshore first.
Ritchie changed his leadership style from do as I do to delegation to the senior leadership group. In terms of a parallel Scooter looks blunted as a leader, Ritchie felt the same until he delegated to his leadership group. Once he did so, he felt like he could play his natural game again and not worry about other areas. Like a lot of leaders learning from mistakes 2007 helped shape him.
Dan and Ritchie were an always “take the three” early pair and often rarely was Dan overruled if he called it. Ritchie reserved right to go for corner if Dan appeared not so certain. He has not agreed with a lot of recent captaincy decisions but thinks he is about 50% accurate.
Both are seriously humble but both agree the difference between good and great is mindset. Both highlighting Jordan’s documentary. Arguably the greatest thing that hold a lot of kiwis back is belief.
More take aways to come but loved talking and listening them
From the outside I'd say that in rugby terms, belief is the biggest differentiator in a positive way for Kiwis..
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Great day today. Took my Dad as a belated Father’s Day present to listen to a couple of goats.
Had a great discussion with Carter and McCaw here in Sydney. My dad even won a signed jersey which some rich punter paid $7500 for lol.Having this moment with my aging Dad priceless, winning a signed jersey and talking about our own family all black history with two goats just sublime.
Had a lot of down days recently but this was absolutely memorable
can you share? understand if you don't want to
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Him and his dad had tickets to a match but couldn't go in the end.
At least I think that's it.
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@ploughboy said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Great day today. Took my Dad as a belated Father’s Day present to listen to a couple of goats.
Had a great discussion with Carter and McCaw here in Sydney. My dad even won a signed jersey which some rich punter paid $7500 for lol.Having this moment with my aging Dad priceless, winning a signed jersey and talking about our own family all black history with two goats just sublime.
Had a lot of down days recently but this was absolutely memorable
can you share? understand if you don't want to
My dad wanted to share with them about his grandfather/ my great grandfather being an original. Dan especially very interested in hearing about him. Won’t name names but was pretty cool hearing the interest.
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
@ploughboy said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Great day today. Took my Dad as a belated Father’s Day present to listen to a couple of goats.
Had a great discussion with Carter and McCaw here in Sydney. My dad even won a signed jersey which some rich punter paid $7500 for lol.Having this moment with my aging Dad priceless, winning a signed jersey and talking about our own family all black history with two goats just sublime.
Had a lot of down days recently but this was absolutely memorable
can you share? understand if you don't want to
My dad wanted to share with them about his grandfather/ my great grandfather being an original. Dan especially very interested in hearing about him. Won’t name names but was pretty cool hearing the interest.
Wow, you are like ABs royalty!
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@bayimports Apologies if I missed it earlier in the thread, how did you come across this catch up with Richie and Dan? Whereabouts in Sydney was it?
I've never thought Richie was a great speaker, and I know a lot of bright people who fumble over their words, so hopefully it's just that.
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@Nepia said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports Apologies if I missed it earlier in the thread, how did you come across this catch up with Richie and Dan? Whereabouts in Sydney was it?
I've never thought Richie was a great speaker, and I know a lot of bright people who fumble over their words, so hopefully it's just that.
they're both doing a speaking event and auction with a 3 hour drinks package between bledisloes, think they did Brisbane Wednesday, Sydney Thursday and Perth today. Was at the Hyatt Regency yesterday
I also hope Im way off with Ritchie. Just felt even when not speaking he was there but not present. Could be anything, even could have been the audience lol, but again am impression I got from a few tells over the day
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@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
@ploughboy said in Happiness Scale:
@bayimports said in Happiness Scale:
Great day today. Took my Dad as a belated Father’s Day present to listen to a couple of goats.
Had a great discussion with Carter and McCaw here in Sydney. My dad even won a signed jersey which some rich punter paid $7500 for lol.Having this moment with my aging Dad priceless, winning a signed jersey and talking about our own family all black history with two goats just sublime.
Had a lot of down days recently but this was absolutely memorable
can you share? understand if you don't want to
My dad wanted to share with them about his grandfather/ my great grandfather being an original. Dan especially very interested in hearing about him. Won’t name names but was pretty cool hearing the interest.
seriously cool. the start of the all blacks legacy
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